渣打銀行擬裁減1000個高級管理職位

Standard Chartered’s new chief executive has told staff he plans to cut a quarter of its most senior management positions in a drastic drive to cut costs at the emerging market lender.

渣打(Standard Chartered)新任首席執行官比爾溫特斯(Bill Winters)告訴員工，他計劃裁減四分之一的最高級管理職位，這一大規模舉措旨在削減這家新興市場銀行的成本。

Bill Winters’ plan to cut 1,000 of StanChart’s 4,000 top managers underlines the scale of the overhaul being drawn up to turn round the bank’s deteriorating performance.

溫特斯計劃將該銀行的4000名高級管理者削減1000人，這突顯出渣打爲扭轉不斷惡化的表現正大舉改革。

The cuts at StanChart add to the widespread bloodletting in the European banking sector, where many large lenders are shedding thousands of jobs to improve sluggish performance, including Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays.

渣打銀行此次裁員加劇了歐洲銀行業的廣泛裁員狀況，很多大銀行正裁撤數千個工作崗位以改善疲弱表現，包括德意志銀行(Deutsche Bank)、匯豐銀行(HSBC)、蘇格蘭皇家銀行(Royal Bank of Scotland)以及巴克萊(Barclays)。

Concerns about how hard StanChart will be hit by a slowdown in emerging markets and a slump in commodity prices — two of its core areas of business — have dragged down its shares recently.

有關新興市場放緩以及大宗商品價格下挫將令渣打銀行受到嚴重影響的擔憂，最近一直拖累該銀行股價。新興市場和大宗商品是渣打銀行的兩個核心業務領域。

But when Mr Winters’ latest memo to staff was leaked on Friday it sent shares in the bank up 5 per cent, extending a rebound that started this week.

但當溫特斯最新員工備忘錄週五流傳開來時，該公司股價上漲5%，延續了本週開始的反彈趨勢。

The memo told staff that a quarter of managers ranked in its seniority bands one to four would be informed that they are losing their jobs by the end of November. It also said the bank would sell assets and exit underperforming areas of business.

這份備忘錄告訴員工，在處於該銀行1至4級的高層管理者中，有四分之一將得到通知，他們將在11月底失業。備忘錄還稱，該銀行將出售資產並退出業績不佳的業務領域。

Mr Winters announced plans in July to shrink the bank’s structure from eight to four regional units and appointed new chiefs to each of the expanded new divisions who will report directly to him.

今年7月，溫特斯曾宣佈計劃，將該銀行的區域架構從8個縮減至4個，並任命了這4個擴大後新業務區域的主管，直接向他彙報。